Model Development

MapleSim 2016.2 provides many valuable tools that improve engineer productivity when developing models, saving time and reducing development risk.

• Live simulations let you see results as the simulation is running, so you can track progress and react to problems immediately.
• Watch 2-D plots and 3-D visualizations unfold as the simulation progresses, instead of waiting until all the computations are completed to see the results.
• Stop the simulation at any time to immediately investigate any unexpected results. All data is saved so you can query the values of any variables of your simulation, including those that are not plotted.


• A new 3-D overlay option lets you easily compare simulation visualizations by overlaying one visualization on top of another, using different tints to distinguish between them. For example, you can use overlays to visually compare the behavior of your plant model under different controllers.


• Tools for revision control enable a structured approach to managing and tracking changes to your model, making it easier to manage projects when multiple engineers are working on the same model and reducing development risk.
• Model comparison tools can be easily hooked into any revision control system that supports external tools, such as Perforce™, Subversion^®, Mercurial, and Git™.
• Models can be saved “exploded”, so changes can be tracked at the component level. You can compare different versions and revert to an earlier version of your component or subsystem using your revision control system.
• A new selective save in MapleSim allows you to save the changes you have made to a specific subsystem while discarding changes to the rest of the model, so your work is less likely to adversely affect other parts of the model.


• The Multibody library includes an enhanced flexible beam that supports multiple cross sections, multiple frames of interaction, and options for damping. As well, equation formulation for flexible beams is now an order of magnitude faster.


• MapleSim Apps, which give you point-and-click access to powerful Maple-based analysis and utility tools from within the MapleSim environment, have been expanded and enhanced.
• A new Equation Extraction App automatically generates the system equations from a model diagram, and displays them within MapleSim. Further workflow improvements include more readable variable names that are also more easily customized, so the displayed system equations are easier to understand.
•  Many MapleSim Apps offer improved workflow and increased functionality, such as the ability to handle protected parameters in the Linearization App, and an Abort button on the Optimization App that cancels the computation while keeping the best solution found so far.
• The MapleSim Battery Library, which is available as a separate add-on, now comes with MapleSim Apps for parameter identification, so you can easily determine model parameters from experimental data without leaving the MapleSim environment. These Apps are easier to use and provide additional functionality than the previous templates, including new individual temperature settings for imported data and control over data reduction.